Joanna Baillie Quotes
Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore,And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar!
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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People like to see showdowns.
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
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What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.
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I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!
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I gazed at that small boat and said to myself, mhh, I am a Mkwere without swimming skills. Better for Membe because he has married in Mbamba Bay. He can swim.
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Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
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Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore,And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar!
